Venice glass

Artists and designers are getting creative with the region’s beloved craft

Discover the Bonhams Prize-winning designs from Barbini Specchi Veneziani at Venice Glass Week, by designers including Martino Gamper and Bethan Laura Wood.

This window was a unique experience to look through. Inside the circles, everything was colourful and distorted so much that you couldn't appreciate what lay behind but between them you got glimpses of the view hiding behind.

In March the National Gallery of Victoria mounted a Murano glass show that we just discovered on the site of our photographer crush, Victoria Zschommler.

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While Murano's glassmaking sector has been notoriously male-dominated for centuries, its new wave of glassmakers and designers is young, inventive and female.

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It is so easy to get ripped off in the shops around St Marks Square, that's why this Murano glass buying guide is essential reading...